Identify the full cost base
Bring together GL, cloud, contracts, invoices, labor, project, and usage data.
AI Economics
Turn AI spend into measurable business value
See every dollar. Control every investment.
Yarken connects AI Usage, Spend and Ownership to Business Value. One financial model, so every AI dollar can be allocated, governed, and tied to a business outcome.
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Total AI costToken, licences, labor and cloud costs
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Clear ownershipVendors, apps, initiatives, teams and services
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AI unit economicsCost per request, seat, workload, and outcome
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Governed actionsForecast, allocate, explain, and optimize
AI capitalization
Traceable AI capital decisions
AI development costs sit across cloud services, model APIs, software, internal labor, contractors, data, and specialist vendors. Yarken brings those costs into one governed model and connects them to the products, initiatives, owners, and development stages that created them.
Connect cost to accountable work
Allocate spend to products, initiatives, teams, applications, and business units.
Create decision-ready evidence
Maintain a consistent financial record that supports capitalization assessment, governance, forecasting, and audit preparation.
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Compute
Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI, GPUs, and specialist infrastructure.
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Tokens
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Cohere, and other model providers.
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Licenses
Copilot, Agentforce, Now Assist, Cursor, and AI-enabled SaaS.
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Labor data
Internal teams, contractors, labeling, training, and operations.
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Vendors
Consulting, existing SaaS licences, AI data licences and specialist AI tools.
The problem
Tokenomics and cloud bills are only the start
Cloud shows one slice. The full cost of AI now sits across five disconnected categories, owned by different teams and measured in different ways.
Cloud bills show one. Yarken brings all five together.
Governed AI Economics
One connected model for usage, spend, and value
Bring fragmented AI Economics into one governed system to understand AI Spend versus Business Value.
AI Cost
Build a fully loaded view across compute, tokens, licenses, contracts, labor, and data.
AI Usage
Understand adoption and consumption across models, workloads, teams, seats, calls, and GPU hours.
Business Value
Connect AI investment to productivity, revenue, efficiency, quality, and business outcomes.
Decision-ready AI unit economics
AI Total Cost
$4.14M
↑ 12.8%vs last month
Shadow AI Cost
$342K
↑ 7.1%vs last month
Capitalization Rate
26%
↑ 4 ptsvs last month
Qualifying Cap Amount
$1.08M
↑ 18.3%vs last month
Variable AI Spend
$2.76M
↑ 21.4%vs prior year
End of Year Projected
$49.7M
↑ 16.2%vs prior year
How it works
From scattered inputs to Governed AI Economics
Bring fragmented AI Economics into one governed system to understand AI Spend versus Business Value
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Connect
Bring together cloud cost, APIs, SaaS, contracts, GL, labor, invoices, and usage data.
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Model
Normalize spend into a governed TBM and FinOps-aligned model.
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Allocate
Assign cost to apps, services, teams, initiatives, and business units.
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Control
Track budget forecasts, variances, showback, cross-charges and unit economics.
From disconnected AI spend to governed financial clarity.
Ingest, normalize, allocate, explain, act
Platform capabilities
Six capabilities. One system
Move from fragmented cost visibility to governed AI economics across leadership, finance, engineering, and FinOps teams.
Adoption + governance
See ownership, classification, concentration, production status, and activity outside approved channels.
AI-powered allocation
Use explainable suggestions and governed rules to map fragmented spend to accountable owners and outcomes.
Squad-level intelligence
Understand cost by squad, member, model, environment, technology tower, and use case.
Agentic automation
Build governed specialist agents and playbooks that assist execution while keeping people in control.
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Ask questions in natural language and receive a structured observation, root cause, and recommendation.
Executive overview
Track AI spend against budget, project year-end run rate, and connect investment to realized business value.
Governance outcomes
The AI Economics questions facing every organization
Yarken connects spend to ownership, ownership to business context, and business context to action.
What are we spending on AI?
Who owns it, and where?
What value is it creating?
What should we do next?
AI Economics packages
Choose the right starting point for AI Economics
Start with cost visibility, govern usage and ownership, and connect AI investment to business value.
Control
See and control AI cost.
Best for
Teams that need one trusted view of AI spend before it gets out of control.
- AI cost data ingestion (financial + operational)
- Multiprovider cost normalisation
- AI cost taxonomy — 5 cost categories
- Cost attribution & allocation methods
- Attribution by function, team & use case
- Chargeback & showback reporting
- Tooling utilisation & overlap
- Budget setting with alerts
- Anomaly detection
- Cost optimisation recommendations (Ask Yarken)
- Shadow AI discovery
- Ownership dimension
- Cost forecasting
- Budget enforcement
- AI workforce cost view
- Initiative & product economics
- Unit economics & cost per outcome
- Model benchmarking
- Cost vs. realised value
- AI Capex / Opex treatment
Custom pricing and implementation options available.
Forecast
Govern usage, ownership and forecast.
Best for
Organizations that need to understand who is using AI, where it's being used, forecast budgets, and where governance gaps exist.
- AI cost data ingestion (financial + operational)
- Multiprovider cost normalisation
- AI cost taxonomy — 5 cost categories
- Cost attribution & allocation methods
- Attribution by function, team & use case
- Chargeback & showback reporting
- Tooling utilisation & overlap
- Budget setting with alerts
- Anomaly detection
- Cost optimisation recommendations (Ask Yarken)
- Shadow AI discovery
- Ownership dimension
- Cost forecasting
- Budget enforcement
- AI workforce cost view
- Initiative & product economics
- Unit economics & cost per outcome
- Model benchmarking
- Cost vs. realised value
- AI Capex / Opex treatment
Custom pricing and implementation options available.
Value
Connect AI investment to value.
Best for
Leaders who need to connect AI investment to business value, capitalization, and financial accountability.
- AI cost data ingestion (financial + operational)
- Multiprovider cost normalisation
- AI cost taxonomy — 5 cost categories
- Cost attribution & allocation methods
- Attribution by function, team & use case
- Chargeback & showback reporting
- Tooling utilisation & overlap
- Budget setting with alerts
- Anomaly detection
- Cost optimisation recommendations (Ask Yarken)
- Shadow AI discovery
- Ownership dimension
- Cost forecasting
- Budget enforcement
- AI workforce cost view
- Initiative & product economics
- Unit economics & cost per outcome
- Model benchmarking
- Cost vs. realised value
- AI Capex / Opex treatment
Custom pricing and implementation options available.
Also available as 3rd-party integrations (not included in any package): intelligent model routing, token and context efficiency optimization, and developer experience & integrations.
Need help choosing?
Reach out to our experts to find the right starting point based on your AI maturity, governance needs, and value goals.
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Trusted by enterprises. Built for Finance
Yarken is live with enterprise technology teams governing complex spend across cloud, SaaS, infrastructure, labor, applications, and AI.
Enterprise-grade trust
SOC 2 compliant, FinOps Certified, aligned with the TBM Council, a member of Tokenomics Foundation, and recognized by Gartner as an established ITFM vendor.
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One platform. Proven foundation
Yarken combines cost intelligence, planning, contracts, application TCO, showback, chargeback, FinOps, and AI Economics in one governed platform.
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Get clarity on your AI spend
If AI costs are growing faster than your ability to explain them, Yarken can help. We connect AI usage, spend, ownership, and value in one governed financial model.
Understand fully loaded AI cost across cloud, tokens, licenses, labor, and vendors.
Assign spend to accountable teams, initiatives, applications, and business units.
Build the financial context needed to govern investment and prove value.
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